ESB crews are working to restore power to 10,000 homes which are still without electricity following severe lightning strikes last night.

Clonmel Chamber of Commerce has said the decision to cut more than 200 jobs at Abbott in Tipperary will have far-reaching effects outside the county.

A 32-YEAR-OLD man whose girlfriend lost her life after becoming ill last Friday has been found shot dead at the foot of her grave.

Commuters are being urged to leave the car at home and opt for public transport where possible as the cold snap continues to bite this morning.

THE National Transport Authority (NTA) has indicated its approval for Iarnród Éireann’s contemptible plan to cull its services on the south Wexford branch.

Bus Éireann is to enhance its services in Wexford and Waterford, it has been announced today.

BUSINESS leaders across the south-east remain furious at Iarnród Éireann’s decision to suspend rail services between Waterford and Rosslare.

TODAY the National Transport Authority (NTA) is scheduled to decide on the application by Iarnród Éireann to withdraw passenger services on the Rosslare-Waterford rail line.

Two young children died in a fire, apparently started by their father after he murdered their mother, it emerged tonight.

A MOTHER who would have celebrated her 44th birthday this weekend, perished in a horrific house fire along with her eight-year-old daughter in the early hours of Saturday morning.

THE current spell of good weather has given potato farmers the opportunity to resume planting, the IFA has reported.

The Irish naval vessel the LE Aoife has left port to assist a British-registered oil tanker, which is reported to be in trouble off the south-east coast.

GARDAÍ last night said they did not expect to find the remains of missing woman Fiona Sinnott in an excavation of a site in Co Wexford.

GARDAÍ are expected to recommend that charges be brought against a man for the murder of missing woman Fiona Sinnott.

GARDAÍ have reopened their investigations into the ‘cold cases’ of six women who disappeared without trace in the 1990s.

A gang used a stolen digger to break an ATM free from a building but they failed to get any cash, gardaí said today.

THE closure of the rail line at Cahir in County Tipperary, due to last week's derailment of a freight train, has seriously disrupted beet deliveries to the Irish Sugar factories in Mallow, and Carlow.

ENVIRONMENTAL officers say they are dealing with an “ecological disaster” after thousands of fish were killed by soaring temperatures at a lake in Co Wexford.

AN extra 100 articulated trucks a day will travel the Wexford to Cork road for the next 12 weeks if the freight service provided by Iarnród Éireann is axed, growers warned last night.